Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 25, 2013

True.

Analogue rules!!! (Turning a knob to set the temperature on my oven is so much quicker and easier than repeatedly poking a tiny button. Also much more reliable!)

If the tool fits the need then get it.Only have a flip cell phone, I’ve never texted, don’t need to, don’t want to.And my phone will stay charged for days when just left on.After making calls it will decrease.My wife’s and son’s smart phones cant run a day without needing a charge.

I’m 75 and I love my smart phone! I get texts and pictures every day from sons, daughter-in-laws, granddaughters and grandsons. So nice!!

This past spring I bought a new cell phone, it’s my third one in 25 years. The salesman was stunned, the ohone I was replacing was analog. I miss that phone.

I love my smart phone. I can do so much with just one device. It’s not that hard to figure out. Cars on the other hand have gotten so complicated that no one, except for the dealer or certified mechanic, can work on them.

Can’t comment right now… busy updating my blender.

I like analog clocks. They don’t go burning out one of the little components of the numerals so that you misread the time. Also, I like getting a sense of what time it’s been, what time it is, and what time it’s going to be.

Good for you Evie

Yup. Last year, my parents gave me their old 1970s-era blender. It works great!

Here’s my quibble re wireless. Wireless devices are useless where there are no towers. Rural areas get short changed (guess where I live). In a major power black out, the old analog phones usually work, phone power is provided by the phone lines. The phone companies have very good backup power capability. I keep an analog/touch tone phone as a back up; its been handy.

My cell phone is so old it still has a rotary dial. Works beautifully.

Thank goodness there are no iBlenders!!